Worship is Only About God

Worship is Only About God

One thing I observed at church today is that worship leaders lead not just physically with words but in their spirit as well. The degree to which a worship leader's heart is reaching for God in worship is the degree to which the people in the congregation will as well. If the worship leader is just singing songs like they are any songs, the people will as well. But if the worship leader really seems to mean what they are singing, the people are more likely to as well.

People can tell when someone is just up there to perform. People can also tell when someone is up there really wanting to connect with God in worship.

Worship isn't just about singing, it's about chasing after God, wanting to fall deeper in love with God. Worship is about reaching your heart up to God and waiting for Him to reach back. This is why reaching our hands up to God is popular, because it is as if in that we are reaching our hearts up to God and holding them up to him as a sacrifice. It is a physical sign of us surrendering all that we are to God. Amen. It is saying "I don't worship man or the opinions of man. I worship you Lord and you alone."

Worship is not a show and it's not meant to be a rock concert. I get so annoyed when you can tell the attitude of a worship leader is "hey look at how great I am. Look at how great my voice is." I just want to smack them and say "no look how great GOD is. You are up there to bring attention to God, not yourself. Never forget that."

But I know how big of an ego people can get about singing well, since I always have. But they forget that it is GOD who gave them that voice. And to come into pride with worship counteracts it or negates it. We can't try to glorify ourselves and God at the same time! And really, that goes for anything we do for God. Either God gets the glory or we do. It can't be both.

Like with my Jesus packets, I want God to get the glory of course. That's why I prefer to drop them off secretively. I'm not trying to be some Christian Rock star, lol just want to show others the love of God.

If we try to get the glory for anything, like leading worship well, the world is then only more turned off to us Christians. Pride is not attractive. Pride is not a very good testimony. The world has plenty of prideful people. What is attractive and different about Christians is when we can be humble and selfless. That is what the world is hungry to see, people that care about them and not just themselves.

May we always stay humble as Christians and seek to point people to God and not ourselves. May our objective be that people only worship God and not us, ever, for anything. Amen. God bless!